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02/01/2025

Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

01/31/2025

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award. Juries and programmers for the...

01/31/2025

By Julie Steenhuysen and Ted Hesson (Reuters) - Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies are scrubbing or taking down webpages, forms and programs that reflect "gender ideology extremism" on Friday to conform with an executive order that reco...

01/28/2025

TITLE: Pee-Wee as Himself Section: Episodic Director: Matt Wolf Logline: A chronicle of the life of artist and performer Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee Herman. Prior to his recent death, Reubens, beloved for his nostalgic, avant garde programs like Pee-wee's Playhouse, spoke in-depth about h...

01/24/2025

D.C.’s newest LGBTQ+ bar, District Eagle, invites patrons to ‘let their freak flag fly’

The space embraces a “kink-forward” mindset, managing partner Zach Renovátes told The Advocate.

01/24/2025

01/24/2025

From the Pacific Northwest’s Miss Trans USA, Beyoncé Black St. James.

To my: Trans Community

“We are the authors of our own lives our stories, our truths, our struggles, our strife
We are the ones who rise above the pain
Who shatter the glass, who break the chains.

We are the trans community, strong and proud
Our identities, our expressions, unbound
We will not be silenced, we will not be erased
Our voices, our faces, in every single place

We are the revolution, the change we seek
We are the ones who dare to speak
Our truths, our lives, our love, our light
Shining bright, in the dark of night

We will not be held back, we will not be tamed
Our spirits, our hearts, our souls, unashamed
We will rise, we will shine, we will thrive
As our authentic selves, alive

So let us stand together, united and strong
our trans community, where we all belong
Let us celebrate our lives, our love, our light
In all our beauty, in all our might.”

Love & Respect:

Miss Trans USA 2024
Beyonce B. St James
Trans USA National Pageantry
Trans Spokane
Lavender Rights Project

01/24/2025

Karine Jean-Pierre spoke to The Advocate about being press secretary under President Joe Biden, living and working proud and out, and what she plans to do now.

01/24/2025

01/24/2025

Bishop Mariann Budde was a little afraid. She watched President Trump proclaim his agenda from the inauguration stage. She felt called to add another element to her sermon: A plea for mercy, on behalf of everyone who is scared by the ways he has threatened to wield his power. “I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” she explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?” So, she took a breath, and spoke. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4h5ZUCm

01/24/2025

Trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride hilariously discredits Trump's gender policy with simple science

According to the Trump administration's new policy "everyone a woman" now. bit.ly/3PS8zMx

01/24/2025

01/24/2025

Gene Roddenberry fought NBC over his multiracial crew in 1966, but there was one group he couldn't include - even though he desperately wanted to. The original Star Trek broke barriers with TV's first in*******al kiss and cast a Black woman as Lieutenant Uhura. But when it came to gay characters, that was one final frontier they couldn't cross.
'I would like to do that,' Roddenberry told George Takei. 'But I'm walking a tightrope.' Even after the controversial in*******al kiss, showing gay characters would have meant instant cancellation.
Roddenberry had to hide his progressive messages behind Kirk's conveniently-timed shirtless scenes just to distract network censors. The show was already pushing boundaries by telling stories 'that weren't being dramatized metaphorically on any other show.'
Looking back now, the lack of gay representation stings. But in showing a future where race and gender didn't matter, Roddenberry was playing the long game. Those three revolutionary seasons changed television forever - paving the way for a Star Trek universe where gay characters like Stamets, Culber, and Sulu could finally exist openly and proudly 🖖✨

01/24/2025

01/24/2025

'Conception Begins at Er****on Act' would make solo activities illegal in Mississippi

Most laws involving conception target women, but this Democratic politician is trying to change that. bit.ly/4h8ddSJ

01/24/2025

Cary Grant - one of Hollywood's most charming leading men - spent his career playing the perfect ladies' man while living with actor Randolph Scott for 12 years in what was dubbed their "bachelor marriage." The two shared a beach house in Santa Monica, and their domestic arrangement raised eyebrows even in permissive Hollywood.
In "Bringing Up Baby," Grant delivered one of the first uses of the word "gay" in its modern context on screen, when, wearing a women's negligee, he exclaimed "I just went gay all of a sudden!" The moment, played for laughs in 1938, takes on new meaning given decades of speculation about his private life.
His roles often played with sexual ambiguity - from the gender-bending comedy of "Bringing Up Baby" to the sophisticated sexual politics of "The Philadelphia Story." Even as he married five times, questions about his sexuality persisted throughout his life and career.
Whether Grant was gay, bisexual, or straight ultimately matters less than how his sophisticated charm and willingness to challenge gender norms helped pave the way for more nuanced portrayals of masculinity in Hollywood.

01/24/2025

01/24/2025

Sam Altman, the gay OpenAI CEO who once called Trump 'terrible,' is the latest tech titan to bow to him

The out OpenAI CEO recently said that he "changed my perspective" on Trump, despite previously saying that "I think Trump is terrible and few things would make me happier than him not being president."